Microsoft Security Essentials continues to win industry-backed, third-party security certifications. A good, comprehensive anti-virus is a must-have application in any Windows system. An anti-virus application that scans for up-to-date virus signatures, one that runs concurrently in the background for real-time protection, and also importantly, one that does not hog system-valuable resources during runtime is what a pro user desires whatever the cost. For years that personally has meant only one choice for me: using Kaspersky. Keeping up with yearly subscription costs of many anti-virus applications can be an expensive proposition, and its second-class citizen status on the Windows platform often means system performance degradation. In recent years, Microsoft has continued to improve Microsoft Security Essentials to the point where choosing anything else seems nonsensical.
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LaCie, a maker of computer peripherals, has introduced a backup server for small office environments called LaCie 5big Backup Server.
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When I click “Start” to open the menu window in Microsoft Windows 7, the “Search” choice (above recent items) is missing. How can I add it to my start menu?
Dell said today it will use the Windows Azure platform appliance, for its Dell Services Cloud to develop and offer cloud services.
The Windows Azure platform appliance will allow Dell to offer private and public cloud services for Dell and its enterprise, public, small and medium-sized business customers. Dell will also work with Microsoft to develop a Dell-powered Windows Azure platform appliance for enterprise organizations to run in their data centers.
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I am SOOO frustrated! All of a sudden I can’t seem to log in to my Hotmail account or anything else on the Microsoft network, Windows Live, whatever it’s called, just says “invalid login”. How can I reset my password on Windows Live, Dave??
When we visited Israel a few weeks ago we kept running into people who would ask “have you seen Soluto yet?”
Luckily we were able to visit them in their Tel Aviv offices and get a good look.
During its Application Infrastructure Virtual Launch Event, Microsoft introduced the Windows Server AppFabric Release Candidate and announced that final availability will follow in June.
The company also made available the first public beta for BizTalk Server 2010, which supports Windows Server AppFabric and is scheduled to release to manufacturing in the third quarter of 2010.
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May 11, Windows will be receiving some critical patches for both Windows and Microsoft Office. They will be plugging holes which can leave users vulnerable to remote attacks. The patch will be issued for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 users. Along with Microsoft Office, the patch will address Visual Basic problems as well.
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Companies and people who want their offices to resemble something out of a not-too-crazy science fiction movie are in luck; last week, Microsoft made the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 Touch Pack available to everyone who can utilize it.
One of my favorite features of Mac OS X is how PDF (portable document format) tools are tightly integrated into the operating system. Want to save something as a PDF document? Any app that can send a document to the printer, be it a Web page, a screen capture, or a nicely formatted report, can just as easily do a “Save As PDF”, and even specify what image quality should be used. Sure, Adobe sells its Distiller program, but on a Mac I would estimate that 95%+ of your document to PDF requirements are already included in the operating system.